pendulate[obs3]; alternate &c. (oscillate) 314; keep off and on, play fast and loose; blow hot and cold &c. (caprice) 608.
     shuffle, palter, blink; trim. 
     Adj. irresolute, infirm of purpose, double-minded, half-hearted;
undecided, unresolved, undetermined; shilly-shally; fidgety, tremulous; hesitating &c. v.; off one’s balance; at a loss &c. (uncertain) 475.
     vacillating &c. v.; unsteady &c. (changeable) 149; unsteadfast[obs3],
fickle, without ballast; capricious &c. 608; volatile, frothy; light, lightsome, light-minded; giddy; fast and loose.
     weak, feeble-minded, frail; timid, wimpish, wimpy &c. 860; cowardly
&c. 862; dough-faced [U.S.]; facile; pliant &c. (soft) 324; unable to say “no”, easy-going,
     revocable, reversible. 
     Adv. irresolutely &c. adj.; irresolved[obs3], irresolvedly[obs3]; in
faltering accents; off and on; from pillar to post; seesaw &c. 314. 
     Int. “how happy could I be with either!” [Gay].

     #606.  Obstinacy. —­ N. obstinateness &c. adj.; obstinacy, tenacity;
cussedness [U.  S.]; perseverance &c. 604a; immovability; old school; inflexibility &c. (hardness) 323; obduracy, obduration[obs3]; dogged resolution; resolution &c. 604; ruling passion; blind side.
     self-will, contumacy, perversity; pervicacy|, pervicacity[obs3];
indocility[obs3].
     bigotry, intolerance, dogmatism; opiniatry|, opiniativeness; fixed
idea &c. (prejudgment) 481; fanaticism, zealotry, infatuation, monomania; opinionatedness opinionativeness[obs3].
     mule; opinionist|, opinionatist[obs3], opiniator|, opinator|;
stickler, dogmatist; bigot; zealot, enthusiast, fanatic. 
     V. be obstinate &c. adj.; stickle, take no denial, fly in the face of
facts; opinionate, be wedded to an opinion, hug a belief; have one’s own way &c. (will) 600; persist &c. (persevere) 604a; have the last word, insist on having the last word.
     die hard, fight against destiny, not yield an inch, stand out. 
     Adj. obstinate, tenacious, stubborn, obdurate, casehardened;
inflexible &c. (hard) 323; balky; immovable, unshakable, not to be moved; inert &c. 172; unchangeable &c. 150; inexorable &c. (determined) 604; mulish, obstinate as a mule, pig-headed.
     dogged; sullen, sulky; unmoved, uninfluenced, unaffected.
     willful, self-willed, perverse; resty[obs3], restive, restiff|;
pervicacious[obs3], wayward, refractory, unruly; heady, headstrong; entete[Fr]; contumacious; crossgrained[obs3].
     arbitrary, dogmatic, positive, bigoted; prejudiced &c. 481; creed-
bound; prepossessed, infatuated; stiff-backed, stiff necked, stiff hearted; hard-mouthed, hidebound; unyielding; impervious, impracticable, inpersuasible[obs3]; unpersuadable; intractable, untractable[obs3]; incorrigible, deaf to advice, impervious to reason; crotchety &c. 608. 
     Adv. obstinately &c. adj. 
     Phr. non possumus[Lat]; no surrender; ils n’ont rien appris ne rien
oublie[Fr].